Optimized processing of an RGB astronomical image. Provided with or without separated luminance.
Made exclusively (no outsourcing) by Franck Bugnet, recognized astrophotographer and trainer.
The based material can be produced with an APN or digital reflex (add of multiple long pause shoots), or can be the color result of the individual gray scale shoots, taken with R, G, B filters and a specialized astro CCD.
Each R, G, B component is most often the outcome of many individual shoots, aligned and compiled.
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As the individual RAW files are usually pre-processed with "dark", "bias" and "flat" master images, and compiled just after the acquisition, the pre-processing steps are not included in the standrad service, but proposed as addtional options.
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The pre-processing steps are: Images calibration (or reduce) and stacking. So the additional options are:
-Files calibration and stacking to be done
-Files are calibrated - Stacking to be done
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Before starting the processing itself, we always check the quality of the calibration, using the histogram.
In a quality issue is detected, we'll propose to you to either redo it (with some advises), either to let us do it for you.
In case the pre-processing is done by us, you will have lot of files to send. So we'll provide you with a private ftp upload server.